Profitability and Cost Management (PCMCS)
Manage and drive profitability with Oracle EPM Cloud Profitability and Cost Management. Efficiently model profitability by segment and complex costing of shared services
Improve Financial Decision Making
Maximize profit and/or minimize costs through quick assumption changes, and get actionable performance information to LOB leaders.
Empower Users with Flexibility
Spend less time on data sourcing, spreadsheets, and coding changes. Put the business users in control by reducing reliance on IT.
Create a Culture of Profitability
Put power in the hands of those that can affect change and gain buy-in from business users through transparency to shared cost allocations.
Key Features
Allocation Engine
Source data and drivers from anywhere—not limiting calculations to data in ERP, and combining financial data with operational metrics and dimensions.
Address complex requirements, such as multi-tiered and a recursive allocations.
Eliminate the "black box" syndrome found in ERP and custom built solutions with step-by-step validation reports for post allocation data integrity.
Suitable for granular, ledger-level allocations, with extensions to operational dimensions.
Deploy a fully-secure, cloud-based application with role and data access rights.
Model Builder
Take the mystery out of building and maintaining profitability models and put the business users back in control with point-and-click model administration.
Leverage business drivers, allocation methods, and metadata that are standardized for consistent usage across all models.
Empower business and operational users around the enterprise to take ownership of allocations instead of relying on IT for all changes in assumptions.
Take advantage of multiple enterprise-wide, as well as departmental uses, including IT service costing, shared service allocations, profitability by product/customer/channel, cost transparency, and operational transfer pricing.
Analysis
Allow users to visualize data in real time without the need to export data to business intelligence (BI) using configurable dashboards.
Access prebuilt analytics for difficult queries such as "profit curves" that reveal hidden drags on profitability.
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Quickly change assumptions, run multiple scenarios, and perform what-if analysis, such as: "What if we change the driver from headcount to revenue?"
Get a tablet-friendly user experience for easy, on-the-go access.
EPM Cloud Data Integration
Connect to source EPM business processes and ERP applications such as Oracle Financials Cloud.
Leverage existing IT investments and quickly integrate data from multiple sources including spreadsheets and native databases.
Achieve integrated financial decisions driven by multiple sources of financial impacts.